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(a) The repeal of a repealing provision of these Codified Ordinances does not revive the provision originally repealed nor impair the effect of any saving clause therein.
(ORC 1.57)
(b) The re-enactment, amendment, or repeal of these Codified Ordinances does not, except as provided in division (c) of this section:
(1) Affect the prior operation of the provision or any prior action taken thereunder.
(2) Affect any validation, cure, right, privilege, obligation, or liability previously acquired, accrued, accorded, or incurred thereunder.
(3) Affect any violation thereof or penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect thereto, prior to the amendment or repeal.
(4) Affect any investigation, proceeding, or remedy in respect of any privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment; and the investigation, proceeding, or remedy may be instituted, continued, or enforced, and the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment imposed, as if the provision had not been repealed or amended.
(c) If the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment for any offense is reduced by a re- enactment or amendment of these Codified Ordinances, the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment, if not already imposed, shall be imposed according to these Codified Ordinances as amended.
(ORC 1.58)
(a) Wherever in a penalty section reference is made to a violation of a section or an inclusive group of sections, or of divisions or subdivisions of a section, such reference shall be construed to mean a violation of any provision of the section, sections, divisions or subdivisions included in the reference.
(b) References in these Codified Ordinances to action taken or authorized under designated sections of these Codified Ordinances include, in every case, action taken or authorized under the applicable legislative provision which is superseded by these Codified Ordinances.
(ORC 1.23)
(c) A reference to any portion of a provision of these Codified Ordinances applies to all re-enactments or amendments thereof.
(ORC 1.55)
(d) Whenever in one section reference is made to another section hereof, the reference shall extend and apply to the section referred to as subsequently amended, revised, recodified, or renumbered, unless the subject matter be changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
If the provisions of different codes, chapters or sections of the Codified Ordinances conflict with or contravene each other, the provisions bearing the latest passage date shall prevail. If the conflicting provisions bear the same passage date, the conflict shall be construed so as to be consistent with the meaning or legal effect of the questions of the subject matter taken as a whole.
If any provisions of a section of these Codified Ordinances or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the section or related sections which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions are severable.
(ORC 1.50)
Whenever, in the Codified Ordinances or in any ordinance of the Municipality, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is otherwise provided, whoever violates or fails to comply with any such provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.